Job Introduction

Job Title:                       ASB & Legal Officer

Salary Banding:           £27,000 - £33,000

Job Location:               Lancashire

Contract Duration:       Permanent

Weekly Hours:              35 (Monday to Friday)

Your Housing Group’s top 2 priorities are to keep people safe and be a great landlord – as an ASB & Legal Officer, you will play a key role in this by improving neighbourhoods and sustaining successful tenancies for our customers. 

We invest in our colleagues, when you join us your existing ASB and Legal knowledge will be further reinforced/refreshed with comprehensive training from an external expert ASB Training Provider.

As an ASB & Legal Officer, you will have…

• a good level of knowledge of current Housing Legislation and Tenancy Enforcement (Anti-Social Behaviour, crime and disorder),
• experience of legal processes ie preparation of witness statements, court applications, court attendance and self-representation
• experience of and management for a wide range of community safety services, including investigating, managing and resolving a diverse range of cases including tenancy breaches and Anti-Social Behaviour

You will work closely with customers to investigate, determine appropriate actions, manage and resolve cases, and also work with a wide range of external stakeholders (local government, Police, Community Safety and Safeguarding Teams), liaising on behalf of both the customer and the Group.

So there’s no excessive travel, you will live within a reasonable commutable distance of your ‘patch’, with the freedom to manage your own diary around your customer visits and stakeholder meetings.   You will visit our brand-new Collaboration Hub in Birchwood, Warrington on occasion, for meetings and training.

What do we have to offer you? In addition to a competitive salary of £27,000- £33,000, 91% of our colleagues recommend us as a great place to work!  You will have 25 days annual leave (incl 3 days to be taken between Christmas and New Year), increasing with length of service, plus all Bank Holidays and the opportunity to buy (or sell) additional annual leave too!  We have a Pension Scheme matched to 8%, a healthcare cash back scheme (where you can be reimbursed for visits to the dentist and optician), discounted cinema tickets and so much more!

Your Housing Group is a next generation housing provider. With our pioneering, workforce, we are working together to build and maintain as many quality houses as possible and play our part in solving the current housing crisis throughout the UK.

With 25,000+ homes across the North West, our multi-tenure portfolio ranges from social and affordable rents, through to supported housing for vulnerable adults and children and older people retirement living developments. We are not only proud to be providing homes which help people to live independently at different stages of their lives, but also of the service and care we provide to our customers who make these properties their home.

As this role allows access to confidential tenancy information, we are unable to accept applications from existing tenants/residents or those who have an association with existing tenants/residents.

Prior to completing your application, please review the attached Role Profile to familiarise yourself with the key responsibilities of the role.                              

Closing date:   15^th October 2021

Should we receive a high number of applications, we may close this vacancy earlier than the date indicated above, therefore, you are encouraged to submit your application as soon as possible.

Your Housing Group values diversity and encourages applications from all communities. Your Housing Group operates a Guaranteed Interview Scheme for tenants or anyone who resides in a Your Housing Group property.  It also operates the scheme for any applicants who declare they have a disability. Those applicants who meet the minimum requirements for the role as set out in the advert and role profile will be guaranteed an interview.  Some roles may be subject to probity checks which will override the scheme where a potential conflict of interest or a probity matter has been identified.  YHG3

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